Managing Literacy/Math Work Stations

I’ve had several questions about how I manage my Literacy Work Stations lately, so I thought I would explain with some pictures: I used Debbie Diller’s LWS signs from the back of her LWS book.  I shrunk them down to about 1/3 of their size (3x5ish) and laminated them.  I then put them into the [...]

New Math WorkStation

Here is a picture of a new Math Work Station I introduced this week. In the past we played this game with 5 chips and I noticed that we were getting bored with 5 so I increased the game to 10. The children shake ten chips in a cup and record how many are red [...]

New Math Work Stations

Here are some more pictures of our newest Math Work Stations.  We’ve moved on to the 3rd quarter Math Common Core Standards (mainly addition and subtraction and 3D shapes).  I’ve introduced a new puzzle that helps with addition and subtraction, some games about weight (heaviest/lightest), and a dramatic version of 5 Green and Speckled frogs [...]

New Math Work Stations

Here are some new Math Work Stations I have introduced in the 2 weeks we have been back in school since our Winter Break.  These are aligned to meet with the Quarter 3 Common Core Math Standards (as they are sequenced for Indiana) This game was taken from an idea that was on the K-5 [...]

Activities for MWS

Here are some new activities that I have put into our Math Work Stations (we are now working on the Quarter 2 Math Common Core Standards where the children need to compose and decompose numbers). The children have 10 frames for the numbers 11-19.  They lay one 10 frame out and make two rows of [...]

Math Work Station Storage

Here is how I store my Math Work Station tubs.  I have a pocket chart where each tub number is listed along with 1-2 students’ names.  They find what number tub they are working with that day and then find it along this shelf.  Because the tubs get put back in a different order each [...]

Math Work Stations Organization

I’m in a mood to organize things lately…I like to start getting things cleaned up near the end of the year so that my new year will be uncluttered and happy!  Ask me how that’s going the 2nd week of January!!   I came up with a way to organize my Math Work Station materials [...]

Math work stations

I am in the process of introducing some new activities into our math work station tubs. The children were becoming bored with three or four of the activities, so it was time to change some of them out. This is an activity from a site called K-5 math resources. I printed out the dinosaur pictures [...]

Race to 10

Here is a simple game I came up with this week (I’ve probably read about it somewhere a long time ago and then just remembered it, so I’m not sure if I was the one who actually made it up!!   ).  We called it Race to 10.  I created a simple 10 frame in [...]

More Math Work Stations

Here are the last three Math Work Stations (for this “round”).  We will start using them on Thursday this week. The children will read the story (after I’ve read it to them several times) and place a cube on each number after reading about that caterpillar in the book (Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin [...]